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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
1
A lengthy essay contrasts rising potato and egg prices with shifting fashion and social norms. It mocks jacketless potatoes and swollen rates while railing at wrecking and platform extremes, and ends with a county GOP convention report from Osceola.
The article argues farmers over forty seven years have built rather than wrecked and cautions against uniting with an element pressing such demands. It claims Nebraska soil is unsuited to propagating those crops and the new scheme will fail early.
Osceola defeats Polk 5 to 0 in a game marked by tight defense and strong pitching. Anderson and Peterson held both teams scoreless until late. Osceola broke through with two runs in the eighth and three in the ninth, before a crowd of 600 to 700.
Pleasant Home court rules for plaintiffs in Warnick case, upholding the contract with the deceased Wm P Warnick and confirming the agreement as binding against his estate.
Miss Mildred Fuller was a passenger to York this morning where she is spending the day.
Edmund Smith returned from a visit in Oregon and Miss Winifred Back rode to Central City. A large number of Policites visited Central City Monday evening, with many other local residents noted in social calls and school events. The Polk High School graduates will hold Baccalaureate at Baptist Church next Sunday. Mother's Day services were held at the Baptist church with a 42 voice choir. A. J. Hanquist and wife celebrated 69th and 66th birthdays with family guests.
Sunday celebrated the fiftieth birthday of Mrs. O. F. Branting in this city. Swede Home Lutheran church members and friends from Swede Home arrived by car convoy to escort the honoree. Rev C A Sward spoke warmly and the group presented cut glass ware amid feasting and song.
The Eastern Star Kensington lodge will meet at the home of Mrs James H Mickey on Wednesday afternoon May 19.
Taxpayers and wives from Polk County meet at the Presbyterian church to consider funding for a new county courthouse. A $400,000 fund is short of the needed amount. a $100,000 levy limit is noted and the group endorses putting the issue to a September 21 vote on the same terms as prior.
Several families in the valley report smallpox among children at the homes of Walter Koehler John Gabriel and Frank Bern. All cases are described as getting along well with no complications noted.
A historical program lists organ preludes, invocations by Rev. Stansbury and Rev. Serenius, solos by Miss Opal Dolphin and Arthur Mickey, scripture by Rev. Klein Ghorus, addresses by Rev. Alverson and Rev. Haas, a duet by Miss Dorothy Douglas and Mr. Homer Beebe, and the presentation of diplomas by Mr. H. C. Beebe. Valedictorian Wilbur Shrader and Salutatorian Lillian Weiseman are acknowledged with the Girls’ Glee Club performances.
Miss May Deland was a passenger to Lincoln this morning. The brief item notes her travel by train from an unnamed origin to the capital city on a routine passenger trip.
The Nebraska Farmer recounts how rural school consolidation law was drafted and pushed by farmers through the 1919 legislature. Key figures included C H Gustafson J O Shroyer W H Campbell Senator W J Taylor Senator Perry Reed J D Ream M Pollard Florian Jacobs and Governor McKelvie. The bill was designed to let farmers vote on consolidation with towns and avoid forced district mergers.
We express gratitude to friends who aided us in the burial of our beloved father William B Dake. Chester J. Dake Henrietta A Dake Mrs Anna Dake Nuebel Mae B Dake Ruth M. Dake
Market notes summarize agricultural prices with scattered terms for wheat corn oats hogs butter eggs cream and sheep. The readable fragments imply commodity reporting and price movement across grains and livestock, but exact figures or entities are not clear from the OCR.
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